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Address to the people of the United States, on the measures pursued by the executive with respect to the batture at New-Orleans

Part 6. Section 3. Second position of Mr. Derbigny. "The plantation bordering on the limits of the city of New-Orleans, was sold by the king of France in 1763, when the alluvion situate in front of the land was already in being."

Part 6. Section 4. Third position of Mr. Derbigny. "That between the alluvion and the land lay a royal road, the same that still exists, and a levee, both of which were then, and have still remained public property."

Part 6. Section 5. Fourth position of Mr. Derbigny. "The alluvion in question has never ceased to be a royal property, the enjoyment of which the French and Spanish governments at all times left to the public, and on which they constantly hindered private persons from encroaching."

Part 6. Section 6. Fifth position of Mr. Derbigny. "Neither Jean Gravier, nor those from whom he derived his title, ever were in possession of the alluvion, and Bertrand Gravier himself, at the time of settling a suburb in front of his plantation declared that he had no claim to the alluvion."